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The first school in Coronado Beach, on the New Smyrna Beach peninsula, was built in 1901 on the southeast corner of Peninsula and Flagler Avenues. The Volusia County School Board furnished the materials and local parents built the school. The first teacher at the Coronado School was Ann Pattillo. Children of high school age has to row across the Hillsborough River (now the Indian River) to attend high school until Washington Everett Conner, an early New Smyrna Beach philanthropisy,

build a bridge across the river, connecting the mainland and the beachside. The schoolhouse became the first location of Coronado Methodist Church, started by H. C. Longstreet. The first Coronado School is now the kitchen of the Cormeth Club.

The present Coronado Beach Elementary was built in 1961 at a cost of $281,000. The school was named after the first school in Coronado Beach and the small beachside community of Coronado Beach that later became part of the city of New Smyrna Beach.